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WS Ref #: 1370 , Witness: Joseph Clancy, Brigade Officer IRA, Clare, 1921
... General Post Office and to seize whatever money we could get our hand's on, and. that he intended ... an inside contact, Dan Reddin, Sixmilebridge, that on the night in question the post office people ... , with. a party of six men, would enter the post office and hold up the staff. The money would ...
... the bike which I had borrowed from one of the Kilkishen R.I.C. men, Constable: Cooke. In subsequent enquiries made by the police I was connected with the raid on the post office, and on 26th January, 1920, I was arrested by a mixed force of B.I.C. and military and taken Ennis jail. After a week I ...
... in England I found that Michael Brennan had been removed from his post as Commandant of the East flare ... as Brigade Training Officer by reason of my post on the brigade staff and because: of my experience ...
... of the actual casualties. No further attempt was made by the military to leave their post, though ...
WS Ref #: 435 , Witness: Tadhg Crowley, Officer IRA and Flying Column, Limerick, 1921
... and to cut the connection of the telephone in the post office. This he did. My brother, Jack, asked him ... , “there are 560 or 570 post office money here and you had better take it”. Murphy said “I cannot do that without ... days. Then a message was received at the post office from the District Inspector of the R.I.C ...
... it was early in 1916 that the postmaster in Kilmallock post office cane to Ballylanders to interview my father, Timothy Crowley, who was then postmaster in Bally- landers post office. He had directions from ...
... a direction from the constabulary that the post office which he held was to be kept open night and day ... Mitchels town and came by a byroad on which they got sunk. Trio military officers called to the post office late in the evening, in or about nine or ten o’clock, I should say, and they wanted to get ...
... . in Ballylanders. My father at that time was the local post-master and had the telegraph office ...
... was informed that he was no longer postmaster and the post office, after a period of nine or ten days ...
... next door, met the local postman, Micky Davern, who was then delivering the post, took the bag and letters, and went round delivering the post. He eventually arrived at Mrs. Coleman’s and met Tom ...
... it was the following day that Father Dick McCarthy and myself called to the office of Frank Daly, manager of Sutton's, Ltd., Grand Parade, Cork. Frank had a civilian suit of clothes ready in the office for Father ...
... office at the time, we were getting telegrams from Bruff principally, which was R.I.C. headquarters ...
... to the office of the clerk of the prison. He read out the sentence or the courtmartial. He said ...
... in the County Council office He lay down quietly and we talked as low as we could. ...
... there were about 267. I appointed two Vice Commandants, one of them Charlie Ryan, who was a poet office ...
WS Ref #: 446 , Witness: Frank Hynes, Captain IV, Galway, 1914 - 1916; Captain IRA, Cork, 1918 - 1921
... to post a letter. Will you come as far as the Post Office with me?". Well!, I never was what you call ... this brave girl see that I was afraid. Now, the Post Office was in the midst of the fighting area. There is a street running straight from the Post Office on to Patrick Street. A crowd of the boys ...
... the street to the recruiting office at Patrick Street Bridge. There was a large picture of Lord ... rushed for the lanes, The peelers lined up in front of the recruiting office and were pelted ...
... of incompetence in which we were right. None of them was fit for the post he held. So Dick instituted ...
... 70. the cemetery the Commandant forgot to relieve us from our duty. The result was that we waited there long after the crowd had gone home. It was dark night when I took it on myself to quit the post. About the middle of December, 1920, we had a very important job to do, We had no proper dump ...
... of trouble yet". I asked him why. "Just as I came to the office this morning", he said, "there were two ...
WS Ref #: 466 , Witness: Frank X Thunder, Civil Servant, Land Commission, Dublin, 1918: Re Oath of Allegiance
... Aprialtine, Crennis (I Think) Post Office Eitis Ward Post Office. I am Sorry I Cannot give you any Mae ...
... 2. Eamon Duggan, Higher Official (now a Principal Officer in Dept. of Industry & Commerce). Tom McArdle, 2nd Divn. Local Govt. Dept. D. O'Hegarty M. McDunphy Dept. of Agriculture. Cremmins (I think) - Post Office. Eilis Ward - - Post Office. I am sorry I cannot give you any more helpful information ...
... Road, Ruthgan and Cleary is Controller of the Patents Office. I should first say this for weeks before ...
... to the Secretary's Office and given an opportunity to change one minds) find dismissal. I never heard. Before ...
... present address is 6 Bushy Perk Road, Rathgar, and Cleary is Controller of the Patents Office. I ... , to the Secretary's office and given an opportunity to change our minds) final dismissal. I never ...
WS Ref #: 1766 , Witness: William O'Brien, Member IRB; Labour Leader
... . There is a bit of a mystery. You may take it from rue and you can discuss it with others who were in the Post Office that Pearse never exercised any military authority in the Post Office. Connolly told me ...
... 2. attention to this and suggested perhaps it could be better for him to return to the Post Office, which he did. I asked him were the girls with him (his daughters, Nore and Ina) and he said ... down O'Connell Street into the Post Office, and I was told they were form Maynooth. About noon I ...
... again at 2 o'clock on Friday and there was no word of Connolly. We then decided to go to Lucan Post Office and see if we could Bet any information as to ...
... 65. the description of the person who handed in the telegram. Dr. Lynn drove Helena Moloney. Commandant wife who was a native of Lucan, and myself to Lucan on Friday evening. Helena Moloney and I went to the Lucan Post Office and stated that we were from the firm of Larkin & Company, Dorset Street ...
... the Post Office as being he Headquarters and said, "That's where I will be", but it didn't convey ...
... no capacity for that kind of work. He never decided anything in the Post Office. Connolly was in charge ...
... in the office. I asked him what it was about and he said he did not know - perhaps I was being released. I ... connected with the dispute about the work. Arriving at the office, five of us were marched ...
... 37. Office and informed by the Governor that he had been direoted to acquaint us that we were being released. He gave us travel warrants to bring us to any portion of Ireland we wished to go ... . The prisoners were lined up in the Prison Yard near the office where the Advisory Committee sat ...
... the prison he was brought into the Governor's Office and thoroughly searched. About the middle of June ...
... it be that necessary to take the Municipal Buildings and the Mail Office and the City Hall? Yes ...
... as one of the five. Mr. Joseph McGrath was appointed Office Manager of the United Organisation. This body ...
... 96. On the way to North Roscommon on 2nd February, Michael Collins told me that he was oh applicant for the position of Secretary of the National Aid Association and asked me for my support. I told him to come round to my office after the election and we would discuss the proposition. He did SO end ...
... the time and number of his post; winding up "All's well!" Until we became, accustomed to this we found ...
... to draft a statement to the Home Office concerning certain conditions in the Camp. ...
... the Commandant. On captain O'Reilly going to the Commandant's office he was pieced under arrest ...
... , Conor Deere and myself were called to the Governor's Office ...
... that Connolly uses as his office. How do I know that! I have it from Madame Markievicz!" I was very non ...
... on the certificate under Section 8(4).) Moloney Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/Office/Court Dare ...
WS Ref #: 218 , Witness: R.H. (Harry) Walpole, Member, IV Dublin, 1916
... THE FLAG. GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, IRISH REPUBLICAN APMY, GENERAL POST OFFICE DUBLIN 1916. A statement ... . Turning into Abbey Street at his command and later on to the General Post Office. The Command left turn, charge, was again given by James Connolly and the Post Office was taken. It was a complete Surprise ...
WS Ref #: 290 , Witness: Sean McLoughlin, Officer IV, Dublin, 1916; IV Organiser, 1917 - 1920
... then left the Post Office and went into O'Connell Street. this was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I saw some dead horses just about the Pillar and One of the guards at the front of the Post Office ... the Post Office I noticed three flags flying, as far as I can recollect, 2 Tricolours and the middle ...
... a dispatch to take to the Post Office to give to Pearse end Connolly. I eventually reached Seán Heuston's ... and. sugar, and a letter for Seán. I then set out for the Post Office, going down Parnell Square ... went into the Post Office Connolly and Pearse stood together with their backs to the counter. I went ...
... about to obey, a Volunteer came rushing down shouting that the Post Office was on fire ... "It is hopeless, we will have to get out." In the meantime the women in the Post Office and the wounded ... time of which I had lost all count. As it was getting dark the Post Office was still alight. Connolly ...
... stating that I was to return to the Post Office and bring my men. In the excitement of getting back I ... no instructions. I returned to the Post /Office ... Office with one of the men who was a member of an organisation known as the Hibernian Rifles. Now we ...
... as well. I went to the Post Office, saw Connolly and Pearse who expressed great astonishment we were ... in the Post Office the tendency was for every post to Remain 8mth in one place and that it would be much ... -12- suggested that I should return to the Poet Office and collect the food. I went oft again ...
... for the post Office. I told him it was too much of a strain to continue carrying parcels on my own ... set out for the Post Office, again collecting food. and supplies. Connolly and Pearse now appearing ...
... for you; we are evacuating the Post Office and I want you to stay with us." I said "Where do we ... in possession of the barricades. I turned back towards the Post Office and saw the whole garrison ...
... to the Post Office. About midday the shelling re-opened. O'Rahilly came up and said "We are moving ... -19- Office. Everybody was gloomy and there was a sense of foreboding that the end was near After ... could get into the Independent Office safely when I was hit." I said "It probably was the shrapnel ...
... , and then we were moved out into Parnell Square. The men went on in front. of the main post office the Four Covers Post Men and our little group were told to fall in behind the main body. I was with Seán ...
... in a discussion with Daly I suggested. to him that it might not be a bad idea if I went back to the Post Office. In the meantime he told me some action had taken place at the top end of his position at King ...
... place and were opening up with all they bad. Beyond us the Post Office was a blazing inferno ...
... notes with the Companys' names by post to Collins at Batchelors Walk where he had a little office ...
... of the Post Office were falling in, but we kept on, our steady pace, turned into O'Connell Street across ...
... down Abbey Street and dash across into Lucas Lamp Office. They dashed off and all the time the Street ... the Independent Office at the bottom of the street. I turned, shook bands with Connolly and he said"Don't ... Office. Arriving there I found all the men standing outside the door trying to take shelter. I said ...
... Stevenson and then set off for the Poet Office with Stevenson. We went down Britain Street and I met ...
... of the Pos1 Office opposite Moore Street and we entered after a parley. It seemed to me that Pearse ... the Independent Office, and" he continued, "the building on the opposite corner so that you can ...
... Beasley at the corner in the doorway of the now Government Publications Office, College Street ...
WS Ref #: 367 , Witness: Joseph Gleeson, Member IRB Supreme Council, 1916
... ’ Journal” and got into Fitzgeralds the wine merchants, When we were crossing from the post-office ... the Imperial Hotel was blazing and we were told to put out the fire in the post office. The post office caught fire on Friday night because they were using incendiary bombs. We evacuated the post office ...
WS Ref #: 467 , Witness: Eugene Bratton, Constable RIC, Meath, 1916 - 1921
... was in touch with the I.R.A. in Navan through Pat O'Brien and Paddy Dunne, who worked in the Post Office. There was a serious leakage of police messages from the Post Office in Navan. Paddy Dunne worked in the Post Office and he was able to decipher all messages going. through. He let me see one of those ...
... immediately opened fire on Sergeant Keighery who was standing at the Post Office door, shooting him ... to be obtained to use a car, Keighery used to steal into the Co. Inspector's office and remove some ...
... bone pattern overcoat hanging in the District Inspector's office from the night, and for some days ...
WS Ref #: 648 , Witness: Catherine Rooney, nee Byrne; Member Cumann na mBan, 1916
... 3. the incident in the Post Office. Later in the week, on the Wednesday, I think, when I visited ... he was brought to Pr. Mathew Rail instead of to hospital. I was the only woman in the Post Office ... of mobilisation or at the post Office. Liam Clarke fell right beside the telephone kiosk which ...
... to the footpath outside the Post Office to speak to Michael Staines. I asked him to let me in but he said No, I ... and by this time men had been posted outside the Post Office. I spotted Frank Murtagh at the Prince's: St ... behind him towards the front of the Post Office an the remark he passed to me was "Here is your first ...
... made my way back to the Post Office. I need not tell you it took me some time. ten I reached Prince's St. I was unable to get into the Post Office. It was all barricaded and although some Volunteers ...
... and he, too, had got a gunshot wound on entering the Post Office, so I was asked to dress it too ... mBan arrive in G.P.O. A number of Cumann na mEan members came into the Post ...
... the Post Office safely and, knowing well where the kitchen was;, I went right up to it. It was then I saw ...
... I was going. I told him about the position in the Post Office and that I came with a dispatch ...
... was standing at the goal-post near the canal end The Black and Tans, having shot him, kicked him and emptied ...
... was asked to post some members of the family on guard. inside the front door to await a certain kind ...
... 5. Office in the afternoon between 5 and 4 o'clock, I should think. I saw Statia Toomey and Molly Reynolds coming in with several others. I should have mentioned that after I arrived I noticed Winifred Carney, a member of the Citizen Army, sitting working at a desk in the main hail towards ...